Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This year men's oxford grey denim suits created such a stir that manufacturers be gan wondering if the men's market might not eventually outstrip women and children sales. Other new uses: denim umbrel las, knitting bags, glass cases to match costumes, fancy pants (an oriental-type knee-length woman's garment for lounge wear), men's tattersall vests, women's ensembles of belts, purses and shoes. Cone Mills has 95 different shades and patterns of denim in the fall line it recently showed to buyers. Reeves, Avondale, Simatex and other mills are furiously...
...Vienna, the Russians relaxed their iron hand. In Belgrade, they made overtures to the heretic, Tito. They even confessed that in postwar policy they had made some "mistakes." All along the globecircling seam where the West and Communism rub together abrasively, the stagnant air of cold war began to stir with Kremlin gestures of concession, of adjustment, even of retreat (see below...
...serving a life term in Joliet, Ill. prison for teaming with Richard Loeb (knifed to death by a fellow inmate in 1936) in the 1924 Chicago murder of 14-year-old Bobby Franks, learned that the parole board had turned down his bid for freedom after 28 years in stir because he "is not the right type of man to go back to society." Told not to apply for parole again until 1965, Leopold, a Phi Beta Kappa who has studied 26 languages in prison, said he was "somewhat disappointed," but could "only accept the decision as gracefully as possible...
Before resigning as president of Harvard last January to become U.S. High Commissioner in Germany, James Bryant Conant made quite a stir as the aggressive champion of the comprehensive public high school. "A dual system [of schools]," said he in a speech in Boston, "serves and helps to maintain group cleavages." Last week another topflight Ivy Leaguer took an uncompromising position on the other side of the question. As things are going now, said Princeton's President Harold Dodds at a Loomis School ban quet, a single school system would be a national calamity. One reason: because the public...
...eight strenuous days & nights, Communist Siqueiros turned out a 10-ft.-square mural hopefully calculated to stir up a lively religious row. Done with a luminous, three-dimensional effect, the painting shows Hidalgo before a Spanish firing squad, one bullet-riddled hand still clasped to his breast in the moment before a final volley cut him down. His accuser is a mitered Catholic archbishop, stiff-backed and sinister, holding a standard topped with a cross. Beneath is a Spanish crown and Siqueiros' own paraphrase of the death sentence: "Excommunication and death penalty for Miguel Hidalgo for professing and spreading...